For the past eight years, Florida Gov Ronald DeSantis has been standing in the shadow of former President Donald Trump, like a seven-year-old boy hiding behind his dad’s towering shadow — from the howling winds of life. As most seven-year-old boys do, they mimic their fathers. When dad works on his car in the garage, he pretends to fix his little toy car next to his dad. When he mows the lawn, the child gets his toy lawn mower and cuts the grass behind him. In the child’s mind, he feels he’s fixed the car and mowed the lawn. That is Ron DeSantis. A Little Boy Blue, lost in the sauce.
In 2022 Hurricane Ian made landfall in Cayo Costa, Florida, DeSantis went there to survey the damage the category 4 storm left behind. As he looked around — like a headless chicken — for a few television cameras to squeak in their microphone, it was clear he was out of his depth. This was not the place for him to make anti-gay comments or attack the “Woke Mob,” he had nothing of consequence to say — again, the seriousness of the moment evaded Little Boy Blue. He left his brain in a stack of hay in Tallahassee. Faced with a major disaster, the one-trick pony was clueless.